Personal Hygiene for Filipino maids and Indonesian maids

Domestic helpers in Singapore play a huge part in keeping the family safe from illnesses! They are the ones in charge of doing the laundry, washing the dishes, disinfecting the toilet, and finishing most of the chores at home. Because of this, employers should make sure their standards are met in terms of cleaning.

Cleanliness starts with the maids themselves. Indonesian maids and Filipino maids should follow personal hygiene guidelines to preserve the health of the employer’s family. Also, maid’s personal hygiene should be stricter in homes with infants and sensitive in-house patients!

We have shared with you some tips to clean certain places and furniture at home but this time, we want to give you guidelines on how to train your Filipino maid and Indo maid to be hygienic housekeepers.

Personal hygiene tips for maids:

1.Take a shower before anything else.
Wash away dead skin cells, sweat, and bacteria from the body first before touching the unclean places at home! Taking a warm shower can also kill bacteria and viruses.

2.Keep the fingernails short and clean.
Women with longs nails collect grime, dust, and dirt from everything they touch. So, for the Indo maids and Filipino maids, long fingernails must be avoided especially in cooking and taking care of infant. Lastly, it would also be more hygienic to stop using nail polish altogether!

3.Wear clean comfortable clothes when working.
We can’t just take a bath, trim our nails, but wear used dirty clothes from yesterday. We advise maids to wear clean clothes especially when working near the baby, cooking, and taking care of patients.

4.Take off all the jewelry.
Earrings, bracelets, watches, and necklaces often get in the way of being productive. They dangle from our bodies and they may even touch the food or irritate the skin of the baby. It is said that it carries soil and bacteria too! All maids should be aware that it’s better not to wear any jewelry when doing household chores.

5.Use hairnets.
Hair is there to protect the head from dust and dirt in the first place. Hair follicles produce oil to attract dust that contain bacteria and strands from our head fall from time to time. For this reason, Indonesian maids and Filipino maids should use hairnets always.

6.Use gloves.
Caregivers and nurses, especially, need to protect their patients and themselves and use gloves when they are on duty. They must make sure their hands are washed thoroughly before putting a pair of it. Also, they need to sanitize these gloves every day to prevent the microorganisms from growing.

7.Wash your hands.
How frequent should a maid or caregiver wash her hand? Here are the following instances when hand washing is a must:

-She needs to wash her hands after eating. -She needs to wash her hands before and after touching the baby or the patient. -She needs to wash her hands after cleaning any parts of the house. -She needs to wash her hands before and after cooking. -She needs to wash her hands after going to the toilet.

These tips can be modified according to the employer’s preference. With these tips, we wish you a clean comfortable house!

The family’s health and safety should be the top priority. Eden Grace Agency offers maid services which will help us secure our children’s safety when we’re not around. We can choose to have a maid who can take care of the tiring household chores and things we cannot handle on our own.

Please contact us for a fuss free consultation with our unique personal screenings of our maids. We look forward to serving you!